Re: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?)

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I wonder if that's a common phenomenon.
Probably.  If you're comfortable and familiar with a script, you'll be
less conscientious about it, more likely to scrawl it out.

> My hypothesis is that when
> you're writing in a not-as-familiar alphabet you don't know *what* you can
> get away with modifying while still being legible.
That's probably part of it.  But I think it's mostly just a familiarity
issue.  Just like when you're speaking with people you don't know well,
you'll be more conscientious of etiquette and the like.  More "polite".

> (I don't know how anyone
> associates cursive with print in English, frex; the letter-forms are in some
> cases pretty darn different, and I think you have to learn 'em
> separately....)
Yep.  That was my experience learning cursive.  Some of them, like P you
could figure out pretty easy, but lower-case "e"?  Took me years before
I could figure out how they got lower-case "r".

> ObConlang: Do your conlangs have different written styles--calligraphy,
> "print," "cursive," other?
Not yet, except that I know that the fricative diacritic and the stress
diacritic aren't always marked in informal writing.

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